Critic and scholar Fred Camper asked the (rhetorical) question that gives this program its title. Tuxedo Theatre marks the beginnings of Sonbert’s montage style; it is a kind of “dress rehearsal” for Carriage Trade. After the somewhat more formalist films of the 1970s, the subsequent decade saw Sonbert continuing to expand his ability to vary subject matter and tone within his trademark montage structure, a structure to which Sonbert would add music beginning with Friendly Witness, his first sound film in twenty years.